एवमुक्त्वा दशग्रीवः सैन्यमस्यादिदेश ह॥ चदुर्दश सहस्राणि रक्षसां वीर्यशालिनाम्। स तैः परिवृतः सर्वै राक्षसै?रदर्शनैः॥ आगच्छतः खरः शीघ्रं दण्डकानकुतोभयः। स तत्र कारयामास राज्यं निहतकण्टकम्। सा च शूर्पणखा तत्र न्यवसद्दण्डके वने।॥
evamuktvā daśagrīvaḥ sainyamasyādideśa ha|| cadurdaśa sahasrāṇi rakṣasāṃ vīryaśālinām| sa taiḥ parivṛtaḥ sarvai rākṣasai?radarśanaiḥ|| āgacchataḥ kharaḥ śīghraṃ daṇḍakānakutobhayaḥ| sa tatra kārayāmāsa rājyaṃ nihatakaṇṭakam| sā ca śūrpaṇakhā tatra nyavasaddaṇḍake vane|||
English Meaning
Having said this the Ten-necked demon issued orders to his army-fourteen thousand highly powerful Rākṣasas, Being encircled by those grim-visaged Rākşasas, Khara, undaunted, speedily came to the Dandaka forest. There he governed without thorns and Śūrpanakhă also resided in the forest of Dandaka.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)